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Congratulations to Allison Case of Madison, Ala., who submitted the top-rated image in this week’s It’s A Snap travel photo contest.

Case was visiting Egypt in early August with her family during a celebratory trip after she took the bar exam.

“It was terribly hot, but we enjoyed beautiful blue skies for the entire trip,” she said.

Case’s exit-sign photo was snapped at the Temple of Horus. “We were on our way up the Nile on a river cruise,” she said. “[We] got off the boat at Edfu and then hopped in a horse-drawn carriage to the temple.”

“The fact that the sign was hand painted caught my eye, and then the humor of ‘big bus,’ ‘carrige,’ and ‘microbus’ made me snap a picture,” she said.

The carriage’s driver was a boy who was 12 years old, or perhaps younger. “He proudly showed us his ID badge when we joked whether he was old enough to drive,” she said.

The grand tradition of the gap year: that glorious time between school and work when young people take an extended break to see the world, explore their options and, perhaps, get a better sense of how they want to live the rest of their lives. These days, more people facing middle age are wondering why young people should have all the fun.